Recommended Reads July
THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET, Jennifer Sklias-Gahan
In The House in the Middle of the Street, Jennifer Sklias-Gahan conjures a haunting modern fairy tale of inheritance, secrets, and the creatures we invite into our lives.
When Rebecca and her husband inherit a stately old home, they imagine it as the perfect place to build their family. But as the seasons turn, shadowy visitors begin to arrive—children who are not what they seem, guests with appetites beyond bread. Bound by ancestral debts and ancient instructions, Rebecca and her descendants are drawn into a chilling cycle of desire, duty, and haunting.
With prose that shimmers like a spell and imagery as vivid as a fever dream, Sklias-Gahan offers a dark winter tale that recalls the cautionary power of the Brothers Grimm while speaking directly to the anxieties of our time.
The House in the Middle of the Street is a gothic exploration of legacy, survival, and the perilous cost of letting others in.
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THE CONFESSION ARTIST, Christine Carbo
A Montana ex-cop becomes the target of a vengeful killer’s viral guessing game in a propulsive novel of suspense by a bestselling and award-winning author.
A killer dubbed the Confession Artist is posting sketches of potential victims on social media. And paranoia spreads as strangers across the nation admit to their sins—fearing the consequences: You have six days to confess or die.
Then former cop and first-year PI Crosbie Mitchell sees a sketch that bears a striking resemblance to her. How can that be? She’s a nobody from Flathead Valley, Montana. Crosbie dismisses it as an unnerving coincidence. If not for one unmistakable detail that makes the threat hard to ignore. When the FBI is contacted, they are convinced that Crosbie is the next target. So is she.
Crosbie has six days left to fess up online to something plaguing her conscience. But even if she wanted to play the killer’s game, she has more than one secret. And if she ever dares to expose them for the world to see, the truth will destroy her. That’s exactly what the Confession Artist wants.
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MEMPHIS, Holly May Cormier
A woman on the run. A family with secrets. A past that refuses to let go.
Memphis Monroe has spent ten years surviving her marriage.
Trapped with a violent husband in 1970s Nashville, she’s learned to stay quiet, keep the peace, and endure—for the sake of her young son. But when her husband’s rage crosses a line she can’t ignore, Memphis is forced to make an impossible choice:
Stay and slowly lose yourself… or run and risk everything to take your life back.
With nothing but her son and a stolen moment of courage, Memphis flees in her husband’s prized Mustang—heading for Los Angeles and a chance at a life she’s never been allowed to imagine.
But freedom isn’t simple.
As Memphis begins to find her voice—and even the possibility of love—her past refuses to stay buried. The secrets that shaped her childhood begin to surface, and the two people she fears most are closing in.
Because her husband isn’t done with her.
And neither is the truth.
Memphis is a gripping domestic thriller about survival, generational trauma, and the cost of breaking free—set against the backdrop of 1970s America and the fight for control over one’s own life.
Memphis is the first book in a gripping crime family series exploring the dark legacy of the Freedman family, with future installments diving deeper into Johnny and Doris’s stories.
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His Last Christmas Gift: A Later in Life Romance Set in the Christmas Markets of France
“…this heartfelt holiday romance is an original and page-turning delight.”—SPR
A Tender Holiday Story & Moving Exploration of How Love Endures
Widowed, fired, and 50, Claire is one hot mess. This later in life romance hits like a snowball packed with grief and hope and mystery and the kind of second-chance that says, “I didn’t think I’d ever feel this again, and now I’m terrified, but… Hi.” Romance that’s frost melting off a windowpane. It’s “I forgot my heart could do this.” It’s love doesn’t have an expiration date.
Twinkly lights, mulled wine and flaming crêpes so immerse you in Christmas markets—you’ll book a flight to France before the fares go up.
A book club fiction favorite, Claire’s journey of self-discovery is perfect for fans of women’s fiction and stories about strong women over 50 navigating reinvention with inspiration, humor, with a delicious frosting of romance.
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Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood
by Julie Ryan McGue
Growing up as an adoptee and identical twin, Julie McGue will take you on her journey for identity and individuality, searching for answers through tragedy and adversity.
“A heartfelt exploration of connection, community, and the unbreakable bond between sisters . . . Her journey beautifully reminds us of the strength we find within ourselves as we seek to uncover where we truly belong.”— Simone Knego, author of The Extraordinary UnOrdinary You
In this coming-of-age memoir, set in Chicago’s western suburbs between the 1960s and ’80s, adopted twins Julie and Jenny provide their parents with an instant family. Their sisterly bond holds tight as the two strive for identity, individuality, and belonging. But as Julie’s parents continue adding children to the family, some painful and tragic experiences test family values, parental relationships, and sibling bonds.
Faced with these hurdles, Julie questions everything—who she is, how she fits in, her adoption circumstances, her faith, and her idea of family. But the life her parents have constructed is not one she wants for herself—and as she matures, she recognizes how the experiences that formed her have provided her a road map for the person and mother she wants to be.
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His Last Christmas Gift: A Later in Life Romance Set in the Christmas Markets of France, Debra Borchert
“…this heartfelt holiday romance is an original and page-turning delight.”—SPR
A Tender Holiday Story & Moving Exploration of How Love Endures
Widowed, fired, and 50, Claire is one hot mess. This later in life romance hits like a snowball packed with grief and hope and mystery and the kind of second-chance that says, “I didn’t think I’d ever feel this again, and now I’m terrified, but… Hi.” Romance that’s frost melting off a windowpane. It’s “I forgot my heart could do this.” It’s love doesn’t have an expiration date.
Twinkly lights, mulled wine and flaming crêpes so immerse you in Christmas markets—you’ll book a flight to France before the fares go up.
A book club fiction favorite, Claire’s journey of self-discovery is perfect for fans of women’s fiction and stories about strong women over 50 navigating reinvention with inspiration, humor, with a delicious frosting of romance.
EVERYTHING SHE MOST ADMIRED, Deborah Kalb
Lauren Green never expected to be a suspect in a murder investigation on her first day at D.C.-based Lens magazine. But then again, nothing had been going well lately. Dumped by her fiancé, her academic career floundering, and her living situation up in the air, she’s barely holding things together.
She knows she didn’t kill reporter Tony Mandel. But who did? Surrounded by murder suspects—including one whom she finds surprisingly intriguing—Lauren tries to piece the clues together, not only about Tony Mandel’s death but also about her own life.
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THE CONFESSION ARTIST, Christine Carbo
A Montana ex-cop becomes the target of a vengeful killer’s viral guessing game in a propulsive novel of suspense by a bestselling and award-winning author.
A killer dubbed the Confession Artist is posting sketches of potential victims on social media. And paranoia spreads as strangers across the nation admit to their sins—fearing the consequences: You have six days to confess or die.
Then former cop and first-year PI Crosbie Mitchell sees a sketch that bears a striking resemblance to her. How can that be? She’s a nobody from Flathead Valley, Montana. Crosbie dismisses it as an unnerving coincidence. If not for one unmistakable detail that makes the threat hard to ignore. When the FBI is contacted, they are convinced that Crosbie is the next target. So is she.
Crosbie has six days left to fess up online to something plaguing her conscience. But even if she wanted to play the killer’s game, she has more than one secret. And if she ever dares to expose them for the world to see, the truth will destroy her. That’s exactly what the Confession Artist wants.
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Falling Star: Book Three in the Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart Series, Michele Kwasniewski
Minutes before her scheduled performance at the party for her third album, sixteen-year-old pop sensation Dani Truehart regains consciousness amid the smoking wreckage of a car accident, the crumbled body of a cyclist splayed on the ground. Moments after the accident, Dani’s manager, Jenner Redman, reaches the scene and his impulsive decision sets in motion a chain of events that will have catastrophic consequences for everyone in the starlet’s orbit.
Later, when scandal threatens to destroy the dazzling career of the world’s most beloved pop star, Dani must choose between accepting responsibility for her disastrous choices, possibly destroying her fame and fortune, or sacrificing those who made her famous and everyone she loves to preserve the stardom she has spent her entire life working to achieve.
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Out of the Crash, Susan Poole
After a fatal hit-and-run devastates their close-knit community, author Caroline Beasley and high school senior Ethan Shawver find themselves at a crossroads as their lives intertwine in unexpected ways. Both are left reeling as they try to make sense of the tragedy that has irrevocably changed their lives.
Caroline struggles with the dark implications of her son’s role in the crash, feeling the weight of guilt and despair. Meanwhile, Ethan grapples with the sudden loss of his mother and stumbles upon a disturbing family secret that threatens to upend everything he believes. As they each search for truth and healing, they must confront their deepest fears and regrets to find a way forward.
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Once We Forget, Elise Geither
As Momma descends into the darkness of dementia, Rose is suddenly obsessed with forgotten images from a distant past … and a young girl with golden hair. Who was Lily?
Something terrible must have happened.
But what if the memory is forever lost?
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NIGHT OF THE HAWK: POEMS, Lauren Martin
When I have wandered long enough what am I still beholden to?
Ifá. Nature. Illness. Love. Loss. Misogyny. Aging. Africa. Our wounded planet. In this sweeping yet intensely personal collection, Lauren Martin tells the untold stories of the marginalized, the abused, the ill, the disabled—the different. Inspired by her life’s experiences, including the isolation she has suffered as a result both of living with chronic illness and having devoted herself to a religion outside the mainstream, these poems explore with raw vulnerability and unflinching honesty what it is to live apart—even as one yearns for connection.
But Night of the Hawk is no lament; it is powerful, reverential, sometimes humorous, often defiant—“Oh heat me and fill me / I rise above lines”—and full of wisdom. Visceral and stirring, the poems in this collection touch on vastly disparate subjects but are ultimately unified in a singular quest: to inspire those who read them toward kindness, compassion, and questioning.
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A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey to Become Cubana-Americana, Barbara Caver
For fans of Chanel Cleeton’s Next Year in Havana, a real-life story of how a young woman’s five-day trip to Cuba, her mother’s birthplace, completely changed her view of herself as a second-generation American.
When Barbara Caver was growing up in South Carolina, her Cuban roots were as mysterious as the embargoed island her mother had been born on but left in 1959. For Barbara, Cuba represented a heritage that she’d never understood and couldn’t fully embrace. When she moved from South Carolina to New York, the vibrant diversity of the city and new friendships with other Cuban Americans made her curious about her mother’s home country. Finally, in 2017, she traveled to Cuba.
Immediately upon arriving in Havana, Barbara was struck by a sense of the familiar: tiles on a backsplash looked like tiles in her grandparents’ home, the airport smelled like a childhood memory, local dishes tasted like her grandmother’s cooking, and a morning stroll through Vedado delivered her to the front gate of her great-grandmother’s home—despite the fact that she didn’t have the address. She wasn’t just visiting a foreign country; she was being welcomed home.
Part travel adventure, part ghost story, and part memoir, A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey To Become Cubana-Americanais an imaginative and humorous personal journey through Barbara’s memories and experiences as she discovers that she is and has always been more Cuban than she thought.
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MAYHEM IN THE MOUNTAIN, Jane Loeb Rubin
1924 in the Catskills sizzled with chaos. The region’s turbulent history during that era could easily have erased any trace of the Borscht Belt’s grand hotels.
Prohibition fueled bootleggers and whiskey stills—Dutch Schultz ran an underground distillery in nearby Ulster County. Meanwhile, the Ku Klux Klan stormed north after WWI, targeting new immigrants they viewed as threats to the American way of life.
Amid the turmoil, the Isaacson family stood their ground, fiercely defending their land, livelihoods, and each other.
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SUCH A PRETTY PICTURE, Andrea Leeb
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy and The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, a candid and heart-wrenching memoir about child abuse, family secrets, and the healing that begins once the truth is revealed and the past is confronted.
Andrea is four and a half the first time her father, David, gives her a bath. Although she is young, she knows there is something strange about the way he is touching her. When her mother, Marlene, walks in to check on them, she howls and crumples to the floor—and when she opens her eyes, she is blind. Marlene’s hysterical blindness lasts for weeks, but her willful blindness lasts decades. The abuse continues, and Andrea spends a childhood living with a secret she can’t tell and a shame she is too afraid to name.
Despite it, she survives. She builds a life and tells herself she is fine. But at age thirty-three, an unwanted grope on a New York City subway triggers her past. Suddenly unable to remember how to forget, Andrea is forced to confront her past—and finally begin to heal.
This brave debut offers honest insight into a survivor’s journey. Readers will feel Andrea’s pain, her fear, and her shame—yet they will also feel her hope. And like Andrea, they will come to understand an important truth: though healing is complicated, it is possible to find joy and even grace in the wake of the most profound betrayals.
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Back to the Cape, Judy Lannon
Back to the Cape is a story of memories, secrets, and the invisible threads that pull us home. When Emma, Esme, and Ellenor—lifelong friends known as the Three E’s—return to their Cape Cod childhood haven, it isn’t for a reunion. Ellenor’s father, Ordelle Snow, is gone, and in his passing, he’s left behind one final twist none of them expected.
It’s been less than a year since they last said their goodbyes at Callahan’s Cottage, yet each woman arrives changed. Emma, quiet and retrospective, struggles to let go of a pain that threatens to undo her. Esme, restless with her new life, stands at a crossroads between the ache of an old love and the temptation to start over somewhere far away. And Ellenor, who once fled the Cape with no intention of looking back, is finally ready to stay—if she can summon the courage to rebuild her life from the ground up.
Ordelle Snow’s unexpected death forces them to confront the secrets, heartbreaks, and unfinished business they hoped time would erase.
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What Lies Buried, Leslie Kain
“A dramatic story about taking the hardest steps forward to confront the scars of our past. A thought-provoking sequel that dives deep into the way our histories shape us.” ― 5 Stars from Indies Today
What Lies Buried…doesn’t stay buried.
Scarred by a lifetime of emotional abuse and traumatic violence, Gavin battles the triggers of Complex PTSD. His wife Katie is determined to support him despite the strain of his unpredictable reactions on their marriage.
But returning to Boston to settle his father’s estate reactivates Gavin’s childhood scars, and more triggers. Then when he uncovers his family’s mob history, his volatile reactions put him in the crosshairs of dangerous people. Worried for his safety, Katie packs up their toddler and joins him. While there, she begins sorting through her late parents’ keepsakes, finding evidence of the artistic talent she abandoned after her father died, when she became child caregiver to her disabled mother. Eager to revive her unfulfilled past, Katie copes with Gavin’s increasingly unstable behavior through her painting and new friendships that encourage her journey to self-discovery.
As Gavin resists treatment and goes off the rails, secrets of his family’s past threaten them all. The generational dysfunction in Kain’s award-winning Secrets In The Mirror continues, as Katie faces her own emotional wounds and must choose between saving her marriage or saving their child…and herself.
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The Route 66 Detective in Missouri: The Route 66 Mystery Series, Micki Pierce
One man. Two wheels. A thousand miles of trouble.
Mac McCarty has spent his life dodging death. First in the dogfights over Europe, then on the lethal wooden planks of the motorcycle racing circuit. Now, he’s a private investigator with a simple beat: the 2,400 miles of asphalt known as Route 66.
In 1937, the highway is a lifeline for some and a graveyard for others.
In the first book of the Route 66 Mystery Series, Mac’s search for the son of a wealthy zinc mine owner takes him deep into the Missouri night. He soon finds himself immersed in a world of Kansas City gangsters, Ozark moonshine, and murder. With the help of a captivating motel owner, Mac plays hard, rides hard, and works harder to close the assignment before more bodies pile up.
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26 Seconds: Grief and Blame in the Aftermath of Losing My Brother in a Plane Crash, Rossana D’Antonio
Much as Eric Schollsberg’s Fast Food Nation made people think about the way we eat, this provocative memoir and exposé challenges readers to question why, given its long history of cover-ups and systemic safety gaps, we continue to trust the aviation industry.
On a stormy late May morning in 2008, TACA Airlines Flight 390 crashes at one of the most dangerous airports in the world, Honduras’s Toncontin International Airport. Five people die in the crash—among them Rossana D’Antonio’s brother, pilot Cesare D’Antonio. Suspecting Cesare will be made a scapegoat for the accident, as so often happens to pilots, Rossana decides to leverage her decades of experience as an engineer and set out in search of the truth.
Part memoir, part exposé, 26 Seconds interweaves Rossana’s research regarding other parallel accidents with her own story. Six months after the TACA crash, Captain Sully Sullenberger lands his plane on the Hudson River. Although authorities call his landing a miracle, they also blame him for its necessity. One year after the TACA 390 tragedy, Air France 447 falls from the sky. Again, pilot error.
As Rossana digs deeper, she exposes a culture that is too quick to conclude pilot error and an industry that experiences systemic weaknesses, chooses profits over safety, lies to its customers, and is willing to risk lives to get its planes back up in the sky. Ultimately, she uncovers the smoking gun she’s been looking for—revealing the truth about TACA 390, exposing aviation cover-ups, and challenging us all to question the very systems we’ve been told we can trust with our lives.
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ASK HIM (The Sandbox Trilogy Book 1), Julie Savanth
When thirteen-year-old Matt disappears on his way home from school, his mother Rachel refuses to believe he is simply gone. Everyone tells her to let go. The police have no answers. Her friends think she’s spiralling. Even her husband, Dom, seems to want her to stop asking questions.
But Rachel won’t give up. As she begins to uncover links between Matt’s disappearance and a string of other missing children, a pattern begins to emerge. Then she finds the coded message Matt left behind, and everything changes. Because Matt saw something he was never meant to see.
And the truth about where he went is more terrifying than Rachel could ever have imagined. ASK HIM is a chilling, thought-provoking thriller about grief, love, perception, and how far a mother will go to bring her child home.
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Learning to Whistle, Tess Perko
For fans of Sue Monk Kidd and Joyce Manard, a debut contemporary women’s fiction novel about a recently bereft daughter who journeys to South America to run away from her grief—and instead finds self-discovery and healing.
When she is supposed to be having the time of her life in college in California, Leonie loses her mother to breast cancer. After taking her last college course in Buenos Aires, she cashes in her return flight ticket and refuses to go home, erroneously believing that her grief will subside if she avoids her family. Narrating in her own grief-stricken voice, Leonie travels across Argentina, makes friends, and falls in love. She discovers her vulnerability and strength while working at a winery in Mendoza, riding over the treacherous Andes Mountains, and hiking the ancient pilgrimage to Machu Picchu—and, in doing so, slowly begins to heal.
Vividly rendered and full of heart, Learning to Whistle will resonate with every person who has ever been forced to venture into the world when they didn’t feel ready for it—with or without the guidance of a parent.
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The Girl on the Beach, Carol Snow
A missing child tears a family apart in this switchback roller coaster of a psychological thriller that builds to a final, jaw-dropping twist, perfect for fans of Jennifer Hillier and Lisa Lutz.
On the surface, Sonia and Graham Starr were a glamorous couple: She, the sleek entrepreneur; he, the boyishly handsome painter with an irrepressible zest for life. They had everything money can buy and the one thing it can’t—a precious, precocious four-year-old named Roxie. But when Roxie disappears into the Pacific Ocean on a perfect August afternoon, their world crumbles around them.
Months later, Roxie’s twenty-one-year-old former nanny, plagued by guilt and confusion, returns to the Starrs’ beach house on the “American Riviera,” the rarefied stretch of land around Santa Barbara where the mountains meet the sea. Her first night back, she gazes out at the sand, only to see a child who bears a striking resemblance to Roxie. When she calls out, the child runs away.
Colleen never believed that Roxie, who was afraid of the surf, would run into the ocean on her own. Now, she is determined to get to the truth, even if it means facing her greatest fears.
The Girl on the Beach asks us who we trust when we can’t trust ourselves.
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Descending Thirds, Nicole Conn
In the high-stakes world of classical music, Alexandra von Triessen, a gifted but insecure pianist, navigates the cutthroat International Ketterling Piano Competition. Dazzled by the charming Sebastian D’Antonio, she finds herself drawn into a web of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic and estranged brother, Conrad. Just as Alexandra’s star begins to rise, a shocking discovery sends her world crashing down, exposing secrets and lies that threaten to destroy everything she’s worked for.
Descending Thirds is a gripping story of ambition, betrayal, and the blurred lines between artistry and integrity. This page-turner explores the sacrifices we make in pursuit of our dreams and the devastating consequences of hidden truths. With two shocking twists that will leave you reeling, this unforgettable novel will resonate with anyone who has ever dared to reach for greatness.
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Every Precious and Fragile Thing, Barbara Davis
A mother and daughter try desperately to reconcile just as a decades-old secret threatens to shatter their relationship forever in this powerful story from the bestselling author of The Echo of Old Books.
For social worker Mallory Ward, working with at-risk youth is a calling. But when one of her clients is tragically killed, she finds herself at a crossroads. Despite long-held resentments toward her distant mother, Mallory retreats to her childhood home on the Rhode Island coast to contemplate her future. Instead, she’s confronted by her past, not only in the renewed tensions with her mother but in the unexpected appearance of a familiar face—and the wrenching losses that drove her away a decade ago.
Helen Ward’s home is filled with precious keepsakes from her patients, a testament to decades spent caring for the terminally ill. Her work has always come first, though, leaving little time to connect with her daughter. Over the years, the rift between them has become a chasm, so when Mallory appears unannounced, Helen sees it as an opportunity to repair their broken relationship.
But hidden among Helen’s mementos are the keys to her past…and a terrible secret that threatens to destroy the fragile new trust between them forever.
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Liberation from the Diet Prison: A Journey to Body-Mind Harmony, Regina Oswald
What if the path to a healthy, harmonious body isn’t paved with struggle, restriction, and shame—but with softness, trust, and self-love?
Liberation from the Diet Prison is a 9-week transformational experience filled with personal stories, scientific insights, and deep compassion. Regina Oswald—designer, certified coach, and inspiring voice of feminine strength—shares her three-decade journey of breaking free from diet culture and coming home to herself.
This is not another diet. It’s a heartfelt letter to every woman who has ever felt “not enough.” An invitation to remember who you truly are. Instead of punishment—support. Instead of guilt—understanding. Instead of endless battle—a path to inner peace, where your body becomes an ally, not an enemy.
Because true body mind harmony isn’t something we chase, it’s something we return to.
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The House at Schumannstrasse 7, Edith Netter
Alice escaped England during WWI because she was German, and Germany during WWII because she was a Jew. She crossed two oceans beset by war, re-uniting with some of her family, surviving at a cost that can only be imagined.
Born and raised in Germany, nothing in her childhood foretold what she would experience later in life. Her family was affluent. They were a respected part of their community. She was educated, cultured and well-traveled. As newlyweds, she and her husband were in London when WWI broke out. He was arrested and imprisoned because he was German. She fled to Germany and waited four years for his release until they could restart their lives together. Three children, a treasured house, and a successful business—the family prospered for years, until the Holocaust. They fled Germany any way they could. Alice took the ‘sealed train’, a short-lived, never-before-described in the literature, service to Lisbon.
Alice Rothschild Netter’s life story, told in her voice, is uniquely personal and accessible. Readers young and old, knowledgeable and not knowledgeable about the Holocaust will be interested in and benefit from reading this true story about the author’s grandmother. Highly recommended for book clubs, school libraries and parents wanting to educate their teenagers about the past.
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The Utterly Unacceptable Atrocity of Isabelle Marsden, Nan Sanders Pokerwinski
Fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine will be drawn to this tale of a woman whose search for a healing refuge leads instead to entanglements, discovery of untapped talent, and a found family that steers her back from the brink of madness.
All Isabelle Marsden wants when she moves from Chicago to Kansas is a place to retreat, reassess, and regain control of her life after an ugly #MeToo experience. But after a chance encounter with a free-spirited artist who carries a wallaby in a baby sling and makes assemblages from roadkill, she’s drawn into a community of eccentrics who soon have her lobbying to rescue their Summer Solstice parade, conducting surveillance at a roadside zoo, and visiting an outsider artist’s strange, yet intriguing, sculpture garden.
Inspired by that wild creation, Belle starts her own peculiar assemblage, convinced it’s the key to repairing her fractured life. As she uncovers her hidden creativity—and madness—her project lands her in trouble with her landlady, the city zoning department, and even the police. Ultimately, her only way through is to rely on help from her found family of oddball characters—and on her newly redefined self.
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American Destiny: A True Story of Family, Roots, and the Journey Between Two Worlds, Marcella Luiso Flanagan and Phyllis Clare Orlowski
Marcella Luiso Flanagan remembers every detail of July 3, 1948, when she and her family boarded a former military transport ship to cross the Atlantic back to Italy, and the months that followed, like it was yesterday.
They spent five unforgettable months in postwar Italy. They were joyous yet filled with uncertainty as her parents struggled to reconcile the country they once knew with the one they found.
The devastation of war, and the devaluation of the lira, forced them to make the heart-wrenching decision to return to America. They left Italy on December 1, 1948, and went back to their home in Westchester, New York.Those five short months would change the course of Marcella’s life forever, and in American Destiny – with the help of her niece – she recalls how her family navigated the journey along with its painful decisions.
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